News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Sherri Walker Hobson (619) 546-6986.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRIAN PALUCH, former Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of PARIC Construction was convicted of charges involving his scheme to use the company’s corporate funds to pay his own personal expenses during the period January, 2010 through February, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYSHAWN McDADE, also known as “S Dot" and “S Diddy," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 132 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DAVID ALLEN EDWARDS, age 69, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information charging him with WIRE FRAUD, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343; TAX FRAUD, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1) and FAILURE TO ACCOUNT FOR AND PAY EMPLOYMENT TAXES OWED, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7202.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Dr. Vikas Desai (Desai), the principal of Desai MD, P.C. d/b/a East Islip Family Care (EIFC), and Dr. Robert Maccone, a physician who was previously affiliated with EIFC, have entered into separate civil settlement agreements in which they have collectively agreed to pay the United States a total of $1,120,299 to resolve allegations that they submitted claims to Medicare for nerve conduction studies (NCVs) that were not medically necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Aug. 11, 2015, Matthew John Horn, 33, of Lincoln, was sentenced to seven years and four months (87 months) in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine between April of 2013 and May of 2014. Information provided to law enforcement indicated...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Internet Scam Targeted Online Purchasers of Used Cars and Other Vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID LEE KILLEN, age 44, a resident of Covington and a former chiropractor, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to health care fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Monday, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) will visit Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River that straddles the borders of Utah and Arizona, in the aftermath of the EPA-triggered toxic spill into the Animas River. This lake and the Glen Canyon Dam that supports it are expected to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT STEWART, the father of former investment bank managing director Sean Stewart, pled guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to trade on inside information about several mergers and acquisitions...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Members of the Jamal Dean Getaway Team (made up of Jamal Dean’s friends, family, and fellow gang members) were sentenced today in federal court for their roles in obstructing a joint state-federal investigation and search for Jamal Dean in April and May of 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Wanzek Construction, 83763 527th Avenue, Oakdale, Nebraska. The company is headquartered in West Fargo, North Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of two indictments charging five individuals with conspiracy charges related to fraudulently operating chiropractic clinics that defrauded automobile insurance companies. These charges are the culmination of a two-year joint federal and state law enforcement investigation dubbed Operation Fraudulent Pain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. B Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., commercial truck driver who is a registered sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for transporting a minor across state lines...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López has announced the selection of 23 projects to receive grants totaling $5.2 million for proactive drought planning and other efforts to build long-term drought resiliency in nine states in the West.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - On Sunday afternoon, Aug. 16, 2015, the Bureau of Reclamation will begin to increase releases from Lewiston Dam to the Trinity River in support of the Hoopa Valley Tribe's bi-annual Boat Dance Ceremony. The increased flows in the Trinity River will be adjusted at rates that protect the public and fish and wildlife.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FRANK MIKE, JR., age 46, of New Orleans, pled guilty as charged today to an Indictment charging interstate transportation of a stolen 2010 Dodge Caravan van from Louisiana to Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Sandra Melnick, 52, of Winter Harbor, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to theft of more than $1,600 worth of public money.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi, 35, a Nigerian citizen, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison following his guilty plea to conspiring to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The sentence was imposed by the U.S. District Judge John Gleeson of the Eastern District of New York.
